What Mr Cameron should do

after a quite awful 24 hours for the Tories is give an example by making an example of the bed blockers - the likes of Douglas Hogg (£2,000 for moat dredging). These people seem to have forgotten that they are there to help their constituents and deliver sound governance. It is simply impossible to go on with such people in the party. Removal of the whip and deselection, please, and no bleating about denial of a fair trial or natural justice. They represent a crooked and ossified Conservatism which might figure in the pages of Squire Haggard's Journal but hasn't anything to do with delivering democracy on a shoe-string - their principal task. Out they must go.

Willy Rees-Mogg in the Thunderer yesterday observed that the parliament is clapped out. It hasn't been articulated in this way and sums the situation up nicely. The Tories should still win despite being covered in manure by their own side but what is desperately needed is new blood - people who have seen and heard what has gone on and know better than to try it themselves.

There's nothing new under the sun. AC observed with amazement 35 years ago the unlimited nature of the perks. Just stop it